Extra required software for making a release

Making a release

git status - make sure everything is checked in
Check travis & appveyor builds are green
make check
make test # see integration test server or run locally
make tag
edit docs/content/changelog.md
make doc
git status - to check for new man pages - git add them
git commit -a -v -m "Version v1.XX"
make retag
make release_dep
Set the GOPATH for a current stable go compiler
make cross
git checkout docs/content/commands # to undo date changes in commands
git push --tags origin master
git push --tags origin master:stable # update the stable branch for packager.io
Wait for the appveyor and travis builds to complete then fetch the windows binaries from appveyor
make fetch_windows
make tarball
make sign_upload
make check_sign
make upload
make upload_website
make upload_github
make startdev
announce with forum post, twitter post, G+ post

Early in the next release cycle update the vendored dependencies

Make the version number be just in a file?

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